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a WinBoard chess engine by Sven Schüle. The first version of Surprise was already created in about 1991 on an Atari ST. The private versions 3.x, developed in 2000/2001 were the first versions playing at least acceptable chess. After a three years break, the work on Surprise was continued in 2004, with versions 4.1 as first public release in June 2004, and the final version 4.3 in October 2007 [2].

Forum Posts#

2004#

• New engine released: “Surprise 4.1”! by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 13, 2004
• Surprise-4.1.1 update released by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 20, 2004
• Surprise updated again, new version 4.1.2 by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, June 22, 2004
• Surprise-4.1.3 released by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, July 09, 2004
• Surprise 4.1.4 released by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, July 26, 2004
• How to handle the first repetition correctly? (long) by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, August 10, 2004 » Repetitions
• Surprise 4.1.5 released by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, August 15, 2004
• Surprise 4.1.6 released by Sven Schüle, Winboard Forum, September 19, 2004

2010 …#

• Time losses with Surprise by Luca Hemmerich, CCC, January 25, 2010
• Re: New engine release: Jumbo by Sven Schüle, CCC, September 19, 2016

External Links#

Chess Engine#

• Surprise - A WinBoard Chess Engine
• Index of /chess/engines/Jim Ablett/SURPRISE by Jim Ablett, hosted by Kirill Kryukov
• Surprise 4.3b13 in CCRL 40/4

Misc#

• Surprise from Wikipedia
• surprise - Wiktionary
• Mezzoforte - Surprise, Garden Party, Live In Reykjavik, March 27, 2007, YouTube Video

References#

1. ↑ An emoticon showing a surprised face, Source: Tango Desktop Project, Wikimedia Commons
2. ↑ Surprise - A WinBoard Chess Engine

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